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Those all require several other skills to be trained to V, as well. The 9- to 10-day train that WU V has is a drop in the bucket compared to the month-plus long trains that many of the other prereqs have. Making AWU more accessible barely affects them compared to the long trains that the rest of the skills have.

What making AWU more accessible does do is it makes it easier for new chars and players to get tight fittings in.

Edit :: Using default attributes and no implants:

Tactical Weapon Reconfig: Reduced from 47 days to 38 days.
Doomsday Operation: Reduced from 64 days to 55 days.
Marauders: Reduced from 65 days to 56 days.

Do note that those are the base skills, just for those particular skills. To actually sit in a Marauder, removing WU V as a pre-req for AWU reduces the train for, say, a Kronos with minimum possible skills from 115 days to 106 days.

To simply sit in a Moros, removing the WU V requirement reduces the minimum possible train from 106 days to 97 days.

To simply sit in an Erebus, you don't even need to train Doomsday Operation, making the whole thing largely moot.

To actually have decent skills to use any of the above, you're looking at trains closing in on six months, at a minimum, and with the capitals, you're looking at a year or longer.

Nine days isn't going to matter in the long-run for those intentions, but can be huge when trying to get a new player or character into a tight fit to be able to be more effective in their group.

Fozzie, I fully support your proposal and think the above is a good suggestion.

Good change.

Not fussed about the naming or primary/secondary attributes.

Good stuff, but "update 118.6" is only a month away - why don't you have a proper name for it yet? :p

People have had them trained for so long they don't remember how ****** the fitting experience can be when you don't have them.

118.5 hits today and its name is ...?

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I for one stick with what ccp is using internally. Earl for the one that gets deployed today and Fiona for the June update.

If that were the primary purpose of AWU 5 I'd agree with your post.

However AWU is essential for fitting tech 2 equipment to ships, by virtue of its role increasing your available fitting (by decreasing the amount your weapons consume).

Rookies who don't yet have CPU Management 5 and Powergrid Management 5 actually gain more from AWU than people like me do.

This is a game balance change that increases the relative power of new players and new characters at the expense of veteran characters. I can get behind that.

I am fine with this. As long as you're looking at those skills, changing the names to more accurately reflect what they do would be great. For example, Weapon CPU Efficiency and Weapon Power Efficiency or Upgrades.

I can get behind it too when I see another 256.000 skillpoints I can put into the ludacris fighter skillbook screwover.

That's stupid. Why don't we make Missile Launcher Operation IV a prerequisite for Hull Upgrades and Shield Managment? Force you to train a skill unrelated to your end goal in order to train a skill you need for something else. For anyone trying to do a missile focus that's what that would force.



Alright. Then change Motion Prediction to require Gunnery V. Force your Newbros to train a Gunnery to V adding over half a week before they can even start shooting other people.